Indie Game Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae Is About A Samurai Schoolgirl Killing Robots

Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae is an action game developed by the indie developer Zenith Blue that made an appearance at Comiket 84. In this PC brawler, you play as a girl named Misa who owns a holy sword and is chasing a former comrade named Suzuka, who posseses a demon blade that she used to kill their teacher.

As Misa, you will use your sword to slice and rip apart waves of enemies on a circular battle field. Your sword gauge will gradually decrease when you fight with your sword and increase when you fight with melee attacks, forcing you to mix it up.

When one or more enemies are blinking red, you can unleash your special attack in which you sheathe your sword and instantly kill every weakened enemy, samurai movie-style. As you kill enemies, you gain skill points that you can use to upgrade your stats and learn new techniques.

I tried the demo a few days before C84, and since then, I’ve been waiting eagerly for the devs / circle to put it up online so that overseas customers could buy it digitally… Is it finally available or still no luck ?

Either way, the demo was much fun. Exactly the kind of game I’m looking for to kill some time, when I just want to destroy a lot of monsters but still want some technics and multiple kind of combos so that it doesn’t get repetitive.

Damarius Wingfield

*Tries to contain mix-feelings*:UUURAAAAHHHH!

Göran Isacson

Kind of getting (and I hope I spell it right now) Croixleur vibes from it- fights taking place in a single arena rather than actual stages, and then you just fight mooks until you win. Looks decent enough for a low price… though ha ha, is it just me or are some of these moves REEEAAALLLY similar to Vergil’s Yamato attacks from Devil May Cry?

Warboss Aohd

…..an outright PC game? from Japan? dat’s rare. If localized, throwin’ it on Steam would make it sell decently. GOG as well if they planned long term.

neocatzon

Japan indie doujin game is not rare at all especially for PC. It’s a thriving market. But, their market usually exclusive in Japan and sold in conventions like Comiket. They don’t usually use steam, gog or anything like that. This game is not an exception. Best way to get them is well, buy them on Comiket or from some Japan product distributors.

Btw, no Orcish today?

Testsubject909

I’d be interested in importing this. It looks fun enough for me and I would quite enjoy seeing what Japanese indies have been up to, outside of the shmups I can find with relative ease or the vastly over-publicized Japanese indies like Cave Story (great game mind you, well worth the hype).

neocatzon

Ah, Cave Story. Easily one of the most recommended game everyone should ever play. Beside shmups, freeware made in rpgmaker and wolf engine can be find easily, thanks to Yume Nikki popularity (and many more). Their doujin culture is really enviable.

Whoever does the main characters surely loves T.A.T.u. !
Japan are known for their own biggest fanbase for T.A.T.u.

brian

I think my face just melted from all that supreme awesome.
I saw this article a couple hours ago and forgot but HOW DID I FORGET ABOUT A SAMURAI SCHOOLGIRL KILLING ROBOTS?
Any chance of this getting localized?

been following this game since it was announced can’t wait to get my hands on it

Stranger On The Road

Please add a miko outfit as an option. PLEASE

Demeanor

Brother, hath thou seen what happens at 1:43? :D

Stranger On The Road

Thanks, I stopped the video when it went dark (assumed that it was going to show the release date).

ajneez

the play style game reminds me a lot NINJA GAIDEN

Demeanor

Eat your guts, Dante (and Vergil)! The girl’s movements are fantastic, dat super-high speed sword slashes! Someone seriously needs to hire these devs and make a Ninja Gaiden-esque game out of this (it’s arena-style atm, if I’m not mistaken…), I’m a big sucker for katana-wielding schoolgirls like AH3’s Kamui.
C’mon, here’s a nice tdl for you:
– translate this game and sell it for PC
– port the indie game to next-gen consoles like the PS4
– fund the devs to create an high-speed, highly difficult but fair game out of this!
– make the blondie playable as well

Isaac Newton

I saw this on the Comiket Video on Youtube damn this game is so tempting XD

XiaomuArisu

okay….that atually looked good.

Rafael Mario Sanchez

I feel dodging will be a lot satisfying. *nosebleeds at sight of pantsu*

I’ve played enough of DAT H-GAME DEVELOPER’s games to know where THE PLOT is going…. IYKWIM

Zak Ledward

Came in thinking that Onechanbara was getting a sequel or something, the game’s art style really reminds me of the artist from that series.

Looking at the trailer the game looks fun, one of those arena beat ’em ups that frequent indie games, though I wish there was more blood and gore in the game, but I guess that’d be asking too much from a small group. In any case, I guess I’ll pick this game up later, it’d be nice to see a port to consoles. Wouldn’t be so bad as a $15-20 game.

Eric Blondebeard

Damn, Daft Punk gets their asses beaten

.:Raphællius:.

OMG! This actually looks like it could be a lot of fun!!

Crimson_Cloud

Hmm… I think that some decent yuri can come from this.

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